CVE-2025-9486

Incorrect Privilege Assignment in GitLab

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 15.6 before 19.0.6, 19.1 before 19.1.4, and 19.2 before 19.2.2 that under certain conditions could have allowed a user with a pending membership to receive permissions granted by a custom role, due to incorrect privilege assignment that did not account for membership state.

Affected

GitLab

CVSS v3.1 GITLAB

3.3 LOWCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS

0.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 26th percentile

Published

2026-08-12

Updated

2026-08-13

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://hackerone.com/reports/3262844

Security advisories

• https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-2-2-released

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry